Hello and welcome to Eye on AI. In this edition…new AI models are coming fast and furious; OpenAI CTO and cofounder Mira Murati departs as the company prepares to slip the shackles of its nonprofit parent; did Google just pay $2.7 billion largely to rehire one guy?
Over the last several days, Google, Meta, OpenAI, and AI2 all released new AI models. Weeks like this that are jam-packed with model releases used to be news-making events, but they’ve become almost hum drum as AI companies pour billions into developing and commercializing models as quickly as possible.
